Archipelago of Resettlement

Download or read book Archipelago of Resettlement written by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : Nước : archipelogics and land/water politics -- Archipelagic history : Vietnam, Palestine, Guam, 1967-75 -- The "new frontier" : settler imperial prefigurations and afterlives of America's war in Vietnam -- Operation New Life : Vietnamese refugees and U.S. settler militarism in Guam -- Refugees in a state of refuge : Vietnamese Israelis and the question of Palestine -- The politics of staying : the permanent/transient temporality of settler militarism in Guam -- The politics of translation : competing rhetorics of return in Israel-Palestine and Vietnam -- Afterword : floating islands : refugee futurities and decolonial horizons.